Llama Tuesday Recommended Reading
Reflections and Readings from My Bradbury Trio Program
Several years ago I made a joke about it being Llama Tuesday and it stuck! In my community, I post a picture of a llama on Tuesdays usually with the tagline: It’s Llama Tuesday - Celebrate Accordingly! So today, here is a llama for you:
If you would like to read more of the Llama story you can go here.
The Bradbury Trio [reading a poem, an essay, and a story every day] fuels my writing. (I am teaching a course about the Trio starting in August.)
This trio structure works for me because I am inspired to write after I read.
I hope the reading you do today leads you to writing that could have not been created any other way.
Here are some of the texts that made an impact on me.
Poem: Instructions by Neil Gaiman
This poem is a great companion for the essay below. What would your instruction be?
Story: Five Things - SmokeLong
I love a story with a list. This is a layered story that packs a punch.
This is a post about an essay so it is a bit of a cheat, but interesting. I am interested in the concept of Joy in our lives and I stumbled across this essay about little joys. This topic reminds me of Ross Gay always but this is interesting. One of the main ways is to enjoy nature!
What are your little joys?
I have been participating in a challenge from Beth Kempton on IG that has brought me enormous joy over the last several days. It is a promotion for her book out today, but it is also a space for writers to meet and learn more about each other.
Have you read anything interesting this week that you need to share!? Please do so in the comments! I love recommendations and have found some of my favorite stories that way.
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is currently working on a short story collection. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
Hallo Tammy, Your Trio strikes a chord.......
!2 years ago I inherited 5,000 incredibly diverse books. Now in "active" retirement, I am plowing through, three at a time --- plus my ever increasing daily reads of substack subscriptions. No shortage of inspiration for my own scribbles and doodles !! Life is evermore enjoyable......
Hi Tammy, I await your Sunday "chat" emails and wanted to say I appreciated the mention of PĂ¡draig's Substack on how we locate ourselves anywhere. I also am looking up to see Ross Gay's poem, "Sorrow Is Not My Name" one my wall, realizing that I haven't read it in awhile: "...there are, on this planet alone, something like two/million naturally occurring sweet things..." It's hard to keep JOY in mind but matters. Thanks for reminding us.